Psalm 139:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and night wraps itself around me,”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; Even the night shall be light about me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me and the night shall be [the only] light about me,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;

Common English Bible

¹¹ If I said, “The darkness will definitely hide me; the light will become night around me,”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Burning coals will fall upon them. You will cast them down into the fire, into miseries that they will not be able to withstand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.

Psalm 139:11 Cross References

1 Kings 3:20

She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your servant slept. She laid him at her breast and laid her dead son at my breast.

Job 12:22

He uncovers deep things from the darkness and brings deep darkness to light.

Job 34:22

There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.

Psalm 94:7

and they say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.”

Isaiah 29:15

Woe to those who hide a plan too deep for the Lord, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”

Jeremiah 23:24

Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.